MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/archives/December 2016

psiram.com/en
This has a wikipedia article on en, fr and de, and I tried to add a link to the official page, but got rejected, because it is on a blacklist. I could find a short discussion about it, but there was no reason given why it should be on a blacklist, except for "I have seen this url for the past few days": I read a few articles on that page and it seems to very similar to RationalWiki. Any reason why this should be on a blacklist? Otherwise, could we please remove it? Thanks. Bonomont (talk) 14:53, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I think you might have more luck requesting a single page to be added to the whitelist Guy (Help!) 00:19, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * , for specific links on this domain, per JzG. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 04:55, 22 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Wait, that's it? You don't react for 12 days and then there is just a "verdict"? We don't get to discuss? You don't explain things? Doesn't sound very open to me. I might have some additional arguments! Also, what do you mean b "JzG"? I can't find any meaningful explanation at all of wikipedia... This is a joke, right? Am I the unwitting participant of "1984 the alternate reality game on wikipedia"? Bonomont (talk) 19:43, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * We're all volunteers here, that's just how it is. Psiram is a grossly unreliable source and not usable for anything on Wikipedia, so a whitelisted single link for the About page is the appropriate way f allowing a link to the site on an article about it. Guy (Help!) 11:49, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Blogspot
Checking out spammer led me to think: perhaps we should put the various blogspot domains in the revert list for citations? Blogspot links are a plague on the project. Guy (Help!) 11:55, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Those should be on both revertlists, indeed. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 14:40, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

espnlive.club
Spamming links to a movie streaming website. The links are added to section headers, similar to solarmovie.tvhotnews.info. Sunmist (talk) 13:23, 1 December 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:40, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

merchantstronghold.com

 * Spamming by multiple single-purpose accounts, e.g.://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GreenSpace&diff=753611722&oldid=677852506 and see //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?target=*.merchantstronghold.com&title=Special%3ALinkSearch. . . Mean as custard (talk) 10:43, 8 December 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:50, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

topcoconutoilsecrets.com

 * Clickbank spam. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:14, 8 December 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:14, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

sportsandoutdoorstips.com
//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golf_Magazine&diff=prev&oldid=754378989, //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golf_club&diff=prev&oldid=754377990, //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golf_in_Scotland&type=revision&diff=754377495&oldid=748534864, //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disc_golf&diff=754375923&oldid=752691209, //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_golf&type=revision&diff=753291779&oldid=751455697. . . Mean as custard (talk) 09:56, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Spamming by multiple single-purpose accounts, e.g.:


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:39, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

tvonline.website




TV/movie streaming site spam. Sunmist (talk) 03:52, 15 December 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:10, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

roleplay.co.uk
roleplay.co.uk is an unremarkable private discussion forum for role-playing that keeps getting added to the lead of the Role-playing article, on 13 October 2016, 20 October 2016, 30 October 2016, and 12 December 2016. I've explained why the link is not appropriate on the article Talk page but they won't talk. I'd rather not edit war to remove the link, for obvious reasons. Because different IPs have added the link intermittently over the course of two months, communicating on their Talk pages would be difficult. About a third of the overall article contributions are from anonymous editors, which makes article protection a bad option, and blocking an IP range will likely affect a number of editors. Another anonymous editor reverted the link here, so it's not simply me versus them. Woodroar (talk) 00:54, 13 December 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:32, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

noisedaily.in


Spammed originally by, who pretty much made every one of his edits about spamming noisedaily.in. After being indeffed, user then returned undeterred as to continue the disruption. I've indeffed both accounts, but the domain should probably be added to the blacklist to suppress temptation. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:27, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:20, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

freemahj.com




Spammed every few days on the Mahjong article from dynamic IPs. Carelessly, too, they often break links or screw up references. Page protection isn't good enough because they sometimes hit random other pages, such as Super Street Fighter II, Microcosm (video game), or Talk:List of Family Computer games - MrOllie (talk) 20:00, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:12, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

mapsofworld.com
I have been going through the site mapsofworld.com and found it quite useful as it gives free to download maps which can be printed and can be used by my son (useful for kids as a whole) to color and to know country locations, remember their names as well as state names of different countries. I thought as this is helpful this should be listed in Wikipedia too so that more people can use it. But while checking for it noticed that it was blacklisted about 8-9 years ago for spamming. In the present context the site does not seem to be a spamming source as it is ranking in google and providing useful info to the users.

Nitsnitz (talk) 12:50, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * you asked this question some time ago, and were replied (hours later) that another (clear SEO) account just asked that (here) less than a day before you did. That is too much of a coincidence. , and I start to think that this should go on a long term spamming list to document all these requests.  User:Kuru summed it up quite nicely in the mentioned post: .. it looks poor quality and just covered with ads for services. Reliable alternatives should not be difficult to find..  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 13:05, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

We do agree that the site’s earning source is Ads but the information provided there is from authentic sources. Credits are given to Government sources on pages where the data is sourced from them. It is also agreed that the request from an SEO account should not have been done and it was over-enthusiasm on part of the company hired for rank maintenance. But this is also true that this is a free resource for people to download maps (blank maps are downloaded most which kids can color after printing for their projects). Nitsnitz (talk) 05:50, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * "Credits are given to Government sources on pages where the data is sourced from then" - then Wikipedia can use the Government sources themselves, we do not need a page that is pushed (per "the company hired for rank maintenance" - it is clear that mapsofworld is still actively trying to improve their ranking). And "it was over-enthusiasm on part of the company hired for rank maintenance" .. how do you know that it was over-enthusiasm by them.  The way you write this sentence suggests that you are aware of communication between mapsofworld.com and the SEO company that was hired for rank maintenance.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:56, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Ratatype.com
I was wondering if the following link may be unblocked. We wrote a pages about education site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_talk:Ratatype.com/sandbox You can check our site it is normal and help people to teach how to type. We have mention about our site in Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AWords_per_minute#Ratatype_links_are_not_reliable_as_they_admit_they_rely_on_Wikipedia_itself_for_their_information

And this articl normal with out block — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnnaSivolob (talk • contribs) 16:05, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * , as previously noted, this site is not blacklisted here. It appears you made a request on the global blacklist which is where it is actually blacklisted. They will resolve it there. Kuru   (talk)  22:21, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Kuru, Could you give me link on global blacklist. I can't find
 * You made a request there yesterday. You found it just fine. Kuru   (talk)  13:23, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

collegedunia.com


Multiple users now and  spamming to multiple articles. Ravensfire ( talk ) 21:23, 27 December 2016 (UTC)


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